Charles Jones, former Senator from Florida

Dates	Title	Representing
1881-1887	Senator	Florida
1875-1881	Senator	Florida

Voting Record

From Mar 1875 to Mar 1887, Jones missed 1,559 of 3,203 roll call votes, which is 48.7%. This is worse than the median of 28.3% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1887. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	83	22	26.5%	41^st
1876 Apr-Jul	184	107	58.2%	88^th
1876 Aug-Aug	51	23	45.1%	75^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	80	19	23.8%	41^st
1875 Mar-Mar	20	2	10.0%	44^th
1877 Oct-Dec	71	0	0.0%	0^th
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	69	15	21.7%	52^nd
1878 Mar-May	107	35	32.7%	68^th
1878 Jun-Jun	83	16	19.3%	36^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	220	59	26.8%	56^th
1877 Mar-Mar	15	8	53.3%	86^th
1879 Mar-Jul	191	35	18.3%	23^rd
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	49	18	36.7%	73^rd
1880 Mar-May	123	67	54.5%	90^th
1880 Jun-Jun	38	6	15.8%	39^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	162	91	56.2%	91^st
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	95	35	36.8%	69^th
1882 Apr-Jul	203	101	49.8%	86^th
1882 Aug-Aug	38	26	68.4%	84^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	389	159	40.9%	70^th
1881 Mar-Mar	13	0	0.0%	0^th
1881 Oct-Oct	61	49	80.3%	69^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	65	25	38.5%	63^rd
1884 Mar-May	102	55	53.9%	84^th
1884 Jun-Jul	76	20	26.3%	40^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	158	113	71.5%	95^th
Dec 1885-Mar 1886	62	62	100.0%	97^th
1886 Apr-Jul	232	232	100.0%	99^th
1886 Aug-Aug	12	12	100.0%	84^th
Dec 1886-Mar 1887	142	140	98.6%	96^th
1885 Mar-Apr	9	7	77.8%	93^rd

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo